Percy Garris

Percy Garris (died 1905) was an American mining company owner in Bolivia. He was known to have employed Butch Cassidy and the "Sundance Kid", two American outlaws, as payroll guards briefly before he was killed.

Biography
Percy Garris was born in the United States to a Yankee family, but he later moved to Bolivia to work as a prospector. He owned a mining company, but he faced problems with paying his workers, as most of his payrolls were stuck up by bandits while heading between La Paz and his mine. In 1905, he employed the skilled gunmen Butch Cassidy and "the Sundance Kid", two American outlaws who were hiding out in Bolivia due to E.H. Harriman's bounty on them, using them as security guards. On one trip back up a mountain from the mine with some silver coins, Garris was shot by Bolivian bandits under Rafe Andino, so his two employees killed all of the bandits, taking the money for themselves now that their boss was dead.